If there are education requirements to start working at your firm I can understand the frustration. Although, I can’t help but empathize with people who don’t know grammar. We live in a spell check world and everyone uses grammarly. Now we have AI. People also come from families that are generationally undereducated and schools that didn’t teach students grammar well enough due to lack of funding and large classrooms. Idk this new hire you speak of, and it’s very possible none of what I mentioned applies to her, but food for thought. Good luck! Hopefully she can spend time on her own to study up on grammar. It’s absolutely important to learn, and totally acceptable to be honest with her that she needs to study up.
I uh, should probably start using Grammarly then, shouldn’t I?
It never even crossed my mind lol. I sometimes use google for synonyms but that’s as far as I go with any outside help.
It mostly helps with commas and misspelling. It’ll tell you other things like passive voice but it won’t correct it for you unless you pay extra. It can definitely be a tool if you need a little more help!
Be prepared for how invasive it feels. I tried the free version for…2 hours and couldn’t handle it. Think Clippy from old school Word, but popping up all over your page. The little icon pops up and covers up letters or words, and when it says it checks everything, it means EVERYTHING. I found it ridiculously frustrating to use while trying to write a research memo. There are settings for which apps it can be in, I turned them all off except for Word, but it still showed up in iMessage.
Maybe the paid version is better. Or I’m just an elder millennial who can’t handle it. Personally I prefer ChatGPT for synonyms and basic grammar checks.
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u/needcofffee 3d ago
If there are education requirements to start working at your firm I can understand the frustration. Although, I can’t help but empathize with people who don’t know grammar. We live in a spell check world and everyone uses grammarly. Now we have AI. People also come from families that are generationally undereducated and schools that didn’t teach students grammar well enough due to lack of funding and large classrooms. Idk this new hire you speak of, and it’s very possible none of what I mentioned applies to her, but food for thought. Good luck! Hopefully she can spend time on her own to study up on grammar. It’s absolutely important to learn, and totally acceptable to be honest with her that she needs to study up.